The Illegitimate Bride of the Bankrupt CEO

"Rule #1: Separate bedrooms. Rule #2: Financial independence. Rule #3: Under no circumstances fall in love. Too bad rules were made to be broken."

Lu Jianyu was the undisputed king of Asian shipping, until an engineered scandal brought his multi-billion-yuan empire to its knees overnight. Stripped of his assets, betrayed by his own blood, and facing forty-eight hours before total liquidation, he is offered a singular, humiliating lifeline: marry a penniless nobody to unlock an overseas fortune. Shen Lianhua spent twenty-six years in the shadows. An independent art restorer with zero interest in high-society glamour, she survived cold attics and vicious rumors after being cast out as a billionaire’s illegitimate daughter. But when her dying father’s will forces her into a den of vipers, she discovers an untouchable Swiss trust left behind with one condition: she must take a corporate husband. Their initial meeting ends with hot tea thrown at his chest. Their marriage begins with five ridiculous contractual clauses and an icy handshake. For six months, they are supposed to be strangers bound by paper. But as family conspiracies detonate around them, the lines blur. The bankrupt titan who swore never to love finds himself dismantling boardrooms just to shield her name, while the guarded girl from the alley proves she has more steel in her spine than every CEO in the city combined. In a war where everyone holds a dagger, their paper contract quickly turns into an all-consuming fire. When the six months expire and the debt is settled, will he let her walk away, or burn down the city before letting her go?